Is Youth’s Overindulgence a Real Thing in Indonesia?
What would be the best thing that most people born in the beginning of the twenty first century Indonesia should actually be grateful for? Social media phenomenon? Popular low-cost flights? or, maybe, 3D movies? You name it. To better reflect how much the world we are living in now has given to us, we should travel back in time when none of those inventions exist . A classic night-time story was once delivered by my mother mentioning that grandma, her mother, needed to walk for miles to reach a traditional market complete with some peeled coconuts to sell which continued for decades before transportations were available and asphaltic roads were finally built in the village. Very often, my mother added another story but this time is not the one about grandma. It is about her, that studying without electricity was an utter nightmare. Interestingly, parents of my high school mates had apparently told similar stories to them that it was simply strenuous to access ‘easy’ life in ...